I made no forward progress on the cardigan today because all the time I spent on knitting today went towards fixing an earlier mistake. The lacy pattern has cables, and three pattern repeats ago I twisted half the cables the wrong way. Not a big deal, and it probably wouldn’t even be visible – but if I don’t fix this, I’ll be confused each time I come to the cables, because I won’t be sure which ones are the correct ones.

Fortunately the pattern is made up of rectangular blocks that don’t interfere with each other. I could unravel a vertical column, four stitches wide, fix it, and repeat the process for the other wrongly-twisted cables.

Eric already jokes that half the work of knitting cardigans is about ripping up and starting over. Indeed. Perhaps I should try to do with cardigans as I do with socks: decide on a base pattern and only make minor modifications in it. I would certainly be more productive that way.